For the easily distracted…

I think this is going to be my easiest post for #BEDM as I take a lot of photos on my walk to work…

Everyday I leave the house to go catch the bus – the first 10 minutes of my walk are pretty dull, and usually I’m rushing as I’ve only just left the house in enough time to make the bus.

But once I get off the bus, I have a lovely 10-15 minute walk (depending on traffic and how much time I have) through some fields, down into the valley and often I take a little bit longer than usual taking photos on the way. I meant to take some new photos for this post actually, but the weather hasn’t been great, so I never really felt like it, instead I’ll share some of my favourite from the last 4 years that I’ve been walking the same route.

I really enjoy my walk to work, it gives me 10 minutes to myself to slow down and enjoy my surroundings before the work day begins.

If you want to see more photos, you can see all my ‘walk to work‘ posts here. Oh also, I have a little Lomokino video from last winter as well.

I was a little bit worried about posting snow photos so long after it snowed here, but it actually looks exactly like this today now, its snowed here all morning and even though it looks lovely, I’m so over the snow!!

Although saying that, these are probably some of my favourite photos from this film, the last photo reminds me of Narnia. I’ve actually been waiting to take that photo for a while, so I was pretty pleased when the conditions were all perfect for it.

Anyway, at least we’re edging closer to Spring every day… right?

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak BW400CN
Location: Walking to Work, Leeds

It’s odd how you can become quite fond of the things.
Especially those hidden amongst the everyday. But you do.
They all look a bit battered, but they still serve their purpose.

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak BW400CN
Location: Walking to Work, Leeds

Snoooow!! So much snow. In fact, these photos I took before in the snow look quite pitiful in comparison don’t they. (I just realised that the first two photos are almost exactly from the same spot, I like that view…)

I’m not a huge fan of snow (mainly because it usually means ice…) but this walk to work was perfect… a real winter wonderland. In fact this roll was possibly the fastest film of photos that I’ve ever taken and I really love the results. Snow really does look great in black and white.

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak BW400CN
Location: Walking to Work, Leeds

If you read lots of UK blogs, then you’ve probably already seen loads of snow photos, but this morning was so glorious, I have to share these from my phone. I can’t remember the last time I actually enjoyed my walk to work so much, the snow just makes everything look stunning. As well as photos on my phone, I took a whole roll of film too – I can’t wait to get those developed.

If you follow me on Instagram, then you’ve probably already seen these, sorry…
they are pretty though aren’t they.

p.s. I didn’t draw the heart, I saw it on the way to work, someone is enjoying the snow :)

p.p.s. These were edited with the newer ‘Willow’ filter on Instagram, have you tried it? I like it.

A few more photos that I took on Monday walking to work in the snow. As I couldn’t use my OM-10 I experimented a little with the aperture on the LC-A in the first and last photo and I’m glad that I did, its so easy to get comfortable just leaving it on Auto that I often forget to use it.

It’s meant to snow more today and over the weekend, so I’m actually a little bit excited about the idea of taking more photos in it.

Have a great weekend!!

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: Walking to Work, Leeds

I think I may have tested the limits of my little LC-A a bit too far by using a 100 ISO film in winter on a dull day and I have no excuse other than I was very excited about getting some Kodak Ektar film for Christmas and I was impatient… I’ll try and restrain myself with it until it gets brighter now.

However, I’m still pretty thrilled with these results, as they do show the colours and feel of the morning so much better than my phone did in colour (which is why all the other photos are B&W, I’m not going to talk about the issues I have with white balance settings) I really do love the tones of this film and I’m glad even tested to its limits that they still show.

Luckily, I also took some photos with this roll of film in the sunshine at the beginning of the month, which have been featured today on Clio’s blog as part of her Friends & Film series (another film blog series I just love) so if you want to see some sunshine and even lovelier colour tones from this film, please check out my feature there. Also Clio’s blog is lovely, her photography is beautiful and thoughtful, so its a double win.

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: Walking to work, Leeds.

{The Chimney in the background has been demolished now, I actually kind of miss it every morning…}

These are actually from last year, I took them as part of Susannah Conway’s Photo Meditations and then never actually uploaded them onto Flickr, oops.

Even though I still had posts on here last week (WP’s scheduled posting is better than Blogger’s) I actually spent the majority of last week in bed sick with Flu. It sucked. But this week is a new week and my first act to feeling better was taking my time walking to work, enjoying some sunshine (even if it was freezing) and snapping some quick photos on my phone.

I’ve taken photos of this walk a million times* but I realised this time last year (as part of Susannah Conway’s Photo Meditations) that it was my way of letting go before having to deal with work. In looking at things that are familiar differently, perhaps I can learn to do the same with everything else that’s happening around me too. Or perhaps, when everything hits the fan, I just like a bit of familiarity… I don’t know. Either way, I feel a bit better.

*slight exaggeration…

As part of my ‘take more photos’ goal for this year – I decided that I wanted to use more of the cameras that I haven’t actually used before in my collection. I am a little behind on these but I’m catching up and as long as I get 12 cameras done by the end of the year I’ll be happy.

I’m really very excited to be sharing this camera with you, it is the Double Dip by James Butler , a custom toy camera with an added multiple exposure switch – you can read more about the Double Dip here. I’d seen some results around the internet before I took any photos and I was fairly excited about taking this little silver baby out and I was not disappointed!

How fun is this camera? I love double exposures, I usually try to take my holga or diana with me when I go somewhere new but I’ve never had a camera dedicated to just multiple exposures alone, I think this camera will be going with me to new places now too.

I decided to post this today as 5 more Double Dip cameras are going on sale tomorrow at 9.30am GMT and if you love these results as much as I do,
I don’t think you’ll want to miss out!

You can also follow James on Twitter for more immediate information tomorrow morning.